This I Believe, Sinead Coleman

The Control You Have

I believe in controlling your anger, no matter how big or small the situation you are in is.

Working in retail allows me to defend all retail employees. Many customers do not realize what I have to deal with as soon as I walk into my store while we are busy. I get bombarded with multiple tasks to take care of within the first 30 minutes of my shift. Whether it is counting in to my register or helping a customer with whatever they need. And then I get yelled at because I have not completed all my tasks because I was too busy with a customer; who made me walk around the store, picking out multiple clothing items only for them to purchase one item. Only leading to ringing up a customer who gets angry with me for the price of their purchase; something that is beyond my control. I believe in not retaliating by yelling back because the customer is always right, I control my anger.

I learned to control my anger from the people around me. My mom always tells me not to get involved in a fight I would not want to look back and regret. My dad sometimes acts quickly on his anger, resulting in many slammed doors and hurt feelings. My eldest sister gets her anger from my dad, getting irritated with many simple, small things. My other sister can control her anger, but most of the times, all of the fighting begins with the bickering of my sisters. As I watch my family pretty much tear each other apart with words and rage, I sit back, controlling my anger.

Learning to control my anger instead of getting into unnecessary fights is probably the most important quality to have. Those who do not have control could easily let anger make them lose sight of the important things in life. I believe to control any emotion is better for everyone in the span of things.

A picture of my sister's and I when we enjoying time together.

The Teardrops

This I Believe

I believe life isn't fair for everyone. Life isn't fair for the poor. They don't get enough water, food, and shelter and that is injustice for them. They don't have any money to buy all those materials to keep safe. They lose children due to lack of clothing and starvation People don't realize how hard it is for those families and young ones to survive each day without the right things. Also life isn't fair to the kids with diseases. Everyday a family loses a loved one due to cancer or diabetes or some other disease. Why should they be even sick in the first place. All the people that I know that have passed away from cancer were all great and loveable human beings. They should've never been put in this kind of situation. Only to some people life is fair to them. And most of those people don't even deserve it. They either lie or cheat to earn that money. All the rich people are usually all stuck up and like to show off there money. It isn't fair to kids or parents who don't have enough money but still have a smile on there faces everyday and continue to work hard and provide food and shelter for their families.

Adventure #6

  In this adventure my family and I went to San Francisco and we walked on the bridge. It was a  cold day and we decided to go on a small adventure to San Francisco since we haven't gone in a while. We always like to drive everywhere and on some random days we like to go to San Francisco. I really like the view from the bridge and it always fun to take long drives with my family. Most of the time we drive on the bridge, but sometimes we walk around and today was one of those days where we walked and talked. We arrived at San Francisco around 10:00 a.m. because we didn’t want drive home with a lot of traffic. We took a lot of pictures and relaxed for an entire day. The day turned out to be really run and I would love to go again.

Adventure 8!?

Last Tuesday when we had a day off I went to the beach! When we arrived at the beach my friend and I went in the freezing water, but after a while I got used to it. Aron remained cold. While in the water, Aron kept diving in the waves which I had been really scared to do before, but I tried it and didn’t die so that was cool. After going in the water we walked up the side of the beach to the train tracks. The last time I had been at Manresa, I walked all the way down to the bridge and walked over it. This is probably one of the scariest things I have ever done. When you walk over the bridge you can see all the way to the ground and planks from the bridge are missing. At one point I even sat down because I felt paralyzed because I was so afraid. Hoping to share this experience with my friends, I walked then to the bridge only to discover it was completely missing. On the other side from where we were, I could see the construction workers with a giant crane. I was devastated. I was hoping my friends would share the same fear I did.

For this adventure I went to the agriculture department with my digital photography class to take pictures of the animals. This was for our first official photography project. Before we went to the Ag farm we want around the school and took pictures for 10 to 15 minutes. Then we went to the agriculture farm our teacher, Mrs. Barcellos suggested we take around thirty pictures. It could have been about anything, like the ground, trees, and the animals in the farm. When I went to the part of the farm with the pigs were I saw on peeing. But I missed the shoot because there were people passing by me and after they left it kept peeing so then I took like 4 pictures of that. I liked this experience because I like animals. But at the same time I didn't like seeing animals in cages. That why I am not a fan of zoos because they are prisons of animals and I think it’s wrong.

Halloween Adventure

On Halloween, I went over to Alex's house. When i got there we started watching the first episode of The Walking Dead. Towards the end of the episode i noticed that Alex had fallen asleep. I woke him up because i wanted to go trick or treating. We walked out of his apartment and onto the side balcony. The view was beautiful showing downtown Los Gatos and the Santa Cruz mountains in the background. We walked down stairs and he led me to a blocked off street with tons of people. Every house was decorated. People were having parties. Houses were having karaoke on their front lawns. We went to a couple houses for candy, but all we really wanted was to look at all the elaborate decorations. After about an hour and a half of walking around, we went back to his apartment to have dinner. His mom brought home chinese take out. Overall it was a really great halloween. Next year i will definitely spend my Halloween in Los Gatos with Alex.